/* ===================

AX2E (AXESCON XACML 2.0 Engine) is the Java authorization engine, which implements OASIS XACML 2.0 standard.
Copyright (C) 2007 AXESCON LLC

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA


Contact: AXESCON LLC - info{at}axescon.com

 =================== */
package axescon.xacml.model.shared.attr;

import axescon.xacml.api.*;
import axescon.xacml.model.ctx.XacmlCtx;
import axescon.xacml.model.policy.AttributeValue;
import axescon.xacml.model.policy.impl.PolicyModelObjectImpl;

/**
 * @author Date: Sep 22, 2005
 *         Responsibilities:
 */
public abstract class AbstractAttributeValue extends PolicyModelObjectImpl implements AttributeValue {
    public Liquid eval(CtxHandler ch, XacmlCtx req, ExpressionEvaluator pdp) throws ExpressionEvalIndeterminateException {
        return new Liquid(this);
    }

    public String getStringValue() {
        return toString();
    }

    public int compareTo(Object o) {
        return compareTo1(((axescon.xacml.model.policy.AttributeValue) o));
    }

    public int compareTo1(axescon.xacml.model.policy.AttributeValue o) {
        return getStringValue().compareTo((o).getStringValue());
    }

    public Class getReturnDataType(FnFactory ff) throws ExpressionEvalIndeterminateException {
        return getClass();
    }


}
